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Originally Posted by alexkiller8
my opinion is: AMR/prodrive thougth that as to develope an open sport car was cheaper than a coupè one, to develope a L6 engine with a turbo was much more simple and cheaper than develope a 3.4 V8 too. I don't believe in the "future road cars configuration" because a lmp1 engine hadn't and hasn't NOTHING to share with a road car engine, and aston martin produces only hand-made limited series luxury supercars... i don't think they will use that kind of engine in their future road car
The same reason was the use of the V12 from dbr9 in the lola aston. Why develope a new engine (and spend money) when you got already a powerfull one? (powerfull doesn't mean automaticly competitive)
I said a lot of times that AMR has made some mistakes
1. had to develope better the new car before the release, so the stupid/sad scenes at paul ricard and le mans test could be avoided
2. if aston martin hasn't any knowledge in making some kind of engines, then buy some judd V8, change something and call it AMR-judd (oreca since last year used AIM engines, that simply were modified judd V10).
Maybe is not the most competitive engine in the roster, but at the least you can use more than 300hp to make it run...
3. consequences of point 1, this year the 2 lola coupè could be used in the meanwhile that the new car had a better development.
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If you believe some rumours there are already straight-six turbo road cars testing, this configeration has also been rumoured a number of times.
http://www.pistonheads.com/astonmart...?storyId=23237
AMR want to develop their engineering to produce carbon chassis and engines in-house, a handful of embarrassing outings is nothing compared to the future potential of the dpt., both for racing and road cars. Audi are prime examples of this with racing success and FSI and TDI developments.
Going for an off-the-shelf solution will give you a baseline performance, but to push ahead of the pack and have greater control you need to take things in-house.